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Honey bees have the ability to count to four, according to new research in Australia. Scientists in Queensland tested the intelligence of the insects by observing their reactions in a tunnel which had nectar placed in just one of five different markers. "We find that if you train them to the third stripe, they will look subsequently in the third stripe," one researcher, Mandyam Srinivasan, explained. "If you train them to the fourth stripe, they will look the fourth stripe and so on. But their ability to count seems to go only up to four. They can't count beyond four. "The more we look at these creatures that have a brain the size of a sesame seed, the more astonished we are. They really have a lot of the capacities that we so-called higher human beings possess." Srinivasan also revealed that the bees had been able to differentiate between colours and smells, as well as flying through a variety of complex mazes. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a133728/honey-bees-can-count-to-four.html

:dozey:, Anyway here is the Daily Mirror's review which is better and has given it 4 stars!: THE STARS Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini. THE STORY Intelligence surrounding an MI6 traitor who almost kills M (Dench) sends James Bond (Craig) to a bank in Haiti, where a case of mistaken identity introduces him to beautiful Camille (Kurylenko), a woman with her own vendetta. She in turn leads him to ruthless businessman Dominic Greene (Amalric) who is also linked to the mysterious organisation that blackmailed the woman Bond loved. Bond's mission takes him to Italy, Austria and South America as he discovers Greene is conspiring to take control of one of the world's most important natural resources and must find a way to stop him. THE VERDICT Quantum of Solace opens hot on the heels of the last Bond movie, Casino Royale. A battered and bruised Bond is being chased over dangerous Italian mountain roads, his Aston Martin weaving its way through traffic while dastardly bad-guys blast away at him with machine-guns. Rattling around in his boot is baddie Mr White, the man responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd - the girl Bond loved in the last film. At the catacombs beneath Siena, Mr White hints at the power of the sinister cartel Quantum. A typically blistering fight sequence sends Bond off into action - and sets the trend for this thrilling spy adventure... just when you take a breath, it leaps pulse-poundingly into action. Advertisement - article continues below » With an electrifying Daniel Craig now firmly established as everyone's favourite British spy, the film-makers take Bond into a 21st Century where danger to the environment is the real threat. Bond globe-trots from Italy to rainy London and then to Haiti, Austria and finally to Bolivia. He teams up with sultry secret agent Camille, who is so tied up in her own plans for revenge that Bond's sex-appeal barely registers. Instead, Bond's lissome lover this time is fresh faced Agent Fields (Gemma Arterton), an MI6 agent who is tasked with sending Bond home. But she's no match for deadly cartels and her fate brings a darker tone to the story. These days the Bond films lack the playfulness of their predecessors. M (Judi Dench, as wonderful as ever) gets the few funny lines, but it's all about Bond getting over his pain and lust for revenge. In previous films it has been about Bond saving the world - this time round, the world saves Bond. Rest assured that the stunning locations, bruising action (some of the close-up fight scenes are astonishing), cool clothes and unrelenting sense of style are all intact. Daniel Craig's Bond is a self-assured, martini-swigging spy who wears his cuts and bruises with pride. Quantum of Solace confirms the strength of the Bond franchise... I can't wait to watch it again! 4 STARS FINAL CUT A brilliant, breathless action romp. Daniel Craig is electrifying. Opens Friday, October 31 (12A, 106 mins)

OMG! OMG! OMG!....Just Two stars! WTF! THE SUNDAY TIMES REVIEW: 2/5 Stars The big question that has always dominated debate among James Bond aficionados has been this — who is the greatest 007 of them all? Now, with the second film in the relaunch of the franchise, they must face a new question — is Quantum of Solace the most boring Bond film ever? Following Casino Royale was never going to be easy, but the director Marc Forster has brought the brand’s successful relaunch crashing back to earth — with a yawn. Even we Bond agnostics could see that Royale had its memorable moments, but Quantum of Solace is $200m worth of bland crash-bang-wallop. It’s an action film on autopilot, one that produces instant amnesia. By the time you have left the cinema, you won’t remember a thing. The trick, of course, is to get a balance between the Bond formula and something fresh. Every time Forster tries to push the feelgood buttons of Bond’s glorious past, however, he totally misses the mark, depriving us of traditional treats. It’s like a panto without a wicked witch. Consider the Bond theme song. Why is it so difficult to write a decent Bond tune? (Answer: because, in the days of John Barry, nobody worried about market demographics.) The latest concoction, Another Way to Die, performed by Alicia Keys and Jack White, is a soulless slice of rock’n’soul sludge. The opening credits, featuring female body shapes emerging from desert sands, look like a cheesy 1970s television ad for a brand of cheap scent. For the big opening scene — a key feature of the Bond film — what do we get? A car chase you can’t enjoy, because the cars and characters disappear in a blur of frantic editing. From this point in, it’s all downhill. The screenplay, by Paul Haggis (Crash), Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, is at times incomprehensible. It’s assumed that you know Casino Royale by heart and understand the intricacies of Bond’s relationship with his true love, the late Vesper Lynd. Did she betray him or try to save him? Search me, guv. And it’s unclear what her relationship was to the secret organisation Bond and MI6 are trying to penetrate, headed by the eco-champion Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who wants to take control of the water supply of the whole of South America. Greene is a thug who topples governments at the click of his fingers, abolishes the minimum wages of factory workers and sells great hunks of the rainforest for a fast buck. This is a Bond villain? It’s the perfect CV for a career at the World Bank. Then there is 007 himself. James, what have they done to you? He has been stripped of any traces of charm, wit or intelligence, and is just another modern hero, concerned only with his own hang-ups and emotional issues. Feelings of grief and guilt over Vesper — not any notion of duty — propel him into action. He’s a thug with a broken heart, trying to find closure through killing. James, get over it and get back to work. Would any kid, or middle-aged fantasist, want to be like this back-to-basics Bond? The glamour is gone; the crack of broken bones has replaced the clink of martinis. In the most recent film, we saw his testicles whipped; here, they are removed. Not, I hasten to add, by a villain, but by the screenplay. The great thing about being 007 is that you get to sleep with beautiful women — all the time. In the new age of Bond realism, however, he gets a quickie with Agent Fields (Gemma Arterton) and nothing with his leading lady, Camille (Olga Kurylenko). Bond directors, take note: more sex, please, we’re British. At the heart of the story is a question: who can you really trust? The Bond series has finally embraced what might be called John le Carré relativism: the notion that the “good” guys are as morally grubby as the “bad” guys. Indeed, one of the characters says, “There is no good and evil” — as if this were a daring proposition. Yet every film these days says it. It would be more daring to suggest that there are no shades of grey, only right and wrong. So, Bond ends up being hunted by both MI6 and the CIA as if he were the villain. You would expect some memorable performances from an actor’s director such as Forster — the man who made Halle Berry look talented in Monster’s Ball — but the casting is a mess. Kurylenko is cute and capable, but Amalric, while he looks like a young Polanski, has the menace of a mouse. The weakest link, though, is Craig. Yes, he looks good in a tuxedo, and is terrific when it comes to action sequences. Paradoxically, however, even though we’re meant to have a very human Bond on display, he moves through the film with the cold, mechanistic manner of Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. No comic quips or human touches are capable of piercing the armour of those tight, puckered lips. In Craig, the 007 franchise has found a great face (and body), but it has not found a voice or a visual style it can call its own. Bond has been stripped of his iconic status. He no longer represents anything particularly British, or even modern. In place of glamour, we get a spurious grit; instead of style, we get product placement; in place of fantasy, we get a redundant and silly realism. Craig makes an attractive corpse, but Bond is dead. 12A, 106 mins

:lol:. Yeah, he has dissapeared into nothing!

Zoo officials in India are searching for a mate for the country's only silverback gorilla. 36-year-old Polo is still single eight years after the death of his 46-year-old partner Sumathi. Vijay Ranjan Singh, director of the Mysore zoo the animal inhabits, remarked that Polo is "not very happy". "The few [hobbies] he enjoys are bathing and searching for food that his keeper hides in blocks of ice or in bamboo to keep him energised," he said. "We have written to all major zoos in the world. We have tried everything." Singh added that it is difficult to establish a trade with other zoos for a partner, as many are reluctant to part with an endangered species. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a133671/lonely-gorilla-looking-for-love.html

The movie industry has always used Halloween as the perfect time to release the latest horror films. With the release of Dead Space, Manhunt 2 and Shellshock 2, it seems the games industry is starting to follow suit. Here we celebrate Halloween by taking a look at the top ten scariest games of all time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. The 7th Guest (PC, Phillips CD-i, Macintosh) The 7th Guest was one of the first games to be available solely as a CD-ROM, due in large to its inclusion of pre-rendered 3D graphics and live video clips. The puzzle element and mansion setting would later become a staple of the horror game genre, but it was The 7th Guest and Alone In The Dark that set the benchmark. The story itself was a creepy tale of a homeless man named Henry Stauf, who, after robbing and killing a woman, has a dream of a doll so beautiful he decides to craft it. He continues dreaming of and making more and more dolls and eventually becomes rich from selling them. The player is put in the shoes of Ego, a clueless character who wakes up in Faust's mansion and witnesses the ghostly re-enactment of a game played by six guests long ago. Ego ends up discovering the secret of the dolls and the fate of a small boy name Tad, who may mean more to Ego than he first thinks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Gamecube) Every generation of Nintendo console gets a game that supposedly challenges the family-friendly perception of the Nintendo brand; Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was one such game. Developed by Canadian developer Silicon Knights, Eternal Darkness was an innovative psychological horror game that genuinely unsettled gamers. The game begins in the present day at a mansion in Rhode Island. The game's heroine, Alexandra, finds a book and by reading it plays out the experiences of the person in the chapter. Every time you finish a chapter you gain the ability to unlock a different part of the mansion and find another chapter. The innovative element of the game comes with the use of sanity effects. The more your character becomes freaked out, the more bizarre things start to happen. The screen would sometimes crash, the controls would invert, monsters that weren't really there would appear and your character would sometimes explode! The gamer would really start to panic when they started hearing noises because they would realise that at any time something could happen that would stop them in their tracks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Dead Space (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) Dead Space isn't the most original of games - it borrows the gameplay from Resident Evil 4, the Event Horizon plot and the Gears Of War gore. Throw in a bit of Doom 3 and you've nailed the feel of Dead Space. Despite its apparent lack of originality, Dead Space is still scary and even though gamers will turn every corner expecting things to jump out at them, it still send a jolt through your body when they do. What makes this stand out from other space/alien shooters is the game's satisfying makeshift weaponry and limb dismemberment. No matter how scared you are and no matter how many enemies are scurrying towards you, you'll enjoy slicing up the hideous monstrosities. Just make sure they're actually dead before you walk past them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Alone In The Dark (PC, Mac OS, 3DO, RISC OS) Alone In The Dark is often credited as being the first ever survival horror game. Following the suicide of the owner of a mysterious mansion, the player - either as the victim's niece or a private detective - enters the mansion to look for an old piano. As soon as you enter the mansion, the door slams shut and you are thrust into the action. In order to survive, you must explore the mansion, combat monsters and solve puzzles. The player will eventually uncover the dark secret of the now well-worn haunted mansion and why the former owner committed suicide. The game was influenced by the master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and various references to his work can be found throughout. The game spawned multiple sequels, but the original stands out as the most influential in the franchise. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Condemned (Xbox 360, PS3) The advent of the next generation bought with it a great deal of excitement and expectation about better graphics, better sound and smarter AI. Condemned: Criminal Origins fulfilled these expectations and created a world that could make you jump with a flicker of shadow in the distance. Played through a first-person perspective, Condemned was unlike anything else seen before; instead of pumping the enemy full of bullets like most FPS, you often had to use melee combat to vanquish your foe. While games like Resident Evil had previously made you wary about the amount of ammo you used, Condemned made you obsessed. The AI of the enemies was so good that they would often retreat and come back with back-up, meaning that gamers without ammo would be witnessing the game over screen on a regular basis. The sequel, which was released this year, offers even more impressive graphics and an increased focus on the supernatural. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Project Zero (PS2, Xbox) On the surface, Project Zero shouldn't be particularly scary. Armed with a camera that is able to trap the souls of ghosts, you play through an adventure set in a mansion. Ignorant gamers may scoff at the idea of ridding the world of ghosts using a camera, and once again playing in a mansion, but the game is based on Japanese folklore and it has been claimed that it is based on the true story of the Himuro Mansion in Japan. With the true story potential and the style being reminiscent of popular modern Japanese horror films like The Grudge, Project Zero is a must for gamers looking for a legitimate scare, just keep the Kodak handy while you play. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Siren: Blood Curse (PS3) Despite being the third game in the Siren series, Siren: Blood Curse is the standout title. The game, played out in 12 episodes of four chapters, uses stealth and combat to great effect. The Siren series invented the sightjacking mode, which allows players to see through the eyes of the monsters, and it is often used in clever ways to solve puzzles and sneak past enemies. Fortunately this version of Siren is much smoother and less cumbersome than its predecessors, making it a joy to play. Much like Condemned, Blood Curse also utilises lighting and shadows to great effect, but it is the haunting groans and wails that will stick with gamers the longest and ensure that the lights stay on every night after playing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Doom - The series (Multi) Doom wasn't the original first person shooter, but it was the FPS that put the genre on the map. Back in the early Nineties every first person shooter that followed Doom was a horror frag-fest designed to test your nerves and reflexes in equal measure. After Doom 2 and Final Doom the series would remain absent for some years, until 2004 when Doom 3 would once again test our metal. The original Doom caused panic among gamers when Imps would suddenly appear out of nowhere, but perhaps the scariest moment came when the player was confronted by the Cyber Demon for the first time. A big hulking brute, whose clunking steps caused fear and panic, he appeared as you descended ever closer to hell. Doom 3 attempted to re-establish horror as the staple of an FPS industry that was churning out WWII shooters by the dozen. Although the locations became repetitive, Doom 3's torch and gun dynamic meant that cautious exploration was a necessity when trawling the pitch black corridors. A Hollywood adaptation followed the release of Doom 3, but the less said about that the better. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Resident Evil - The series (Multi) Although the origin of the survival horror can be placed at the feet of Alone In The Dark, it was Resident Evil that made it popular. Capcom's take on the genre arrived in 1996 and was an instant hit. The game has gone on to spawn nearly twenty spinoffs and sequels as well as three Hollywood films. The first game is set in a mansion (surprise surprise) and the player must make their way around, looking for the rest of the STARS team, from whom you get separated at the beginning. It doesn't take long for things to get scary, and most gamers will remember the first zombie you encounter in the now famous cut-scene. The sinister Umbrella corporation is discovered to be at the root of the outbreak, and with a few twists and turns later you find out that even some of your allies can't be trusted. Most of the direct sequels used similar gameplay and puzzle solving features until Resident Evil 4 came along and shook things up. The focus is now on combat and hoards of enemies stalk you at every corner just waiting to be pumped full of lead. With Resident Evil 5 coming next year, gamers are once again chomping at the bit to revisit Umbrella and teach them a lesson. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Silent Hill - The series (Multi) The number one spot has to go to Silent Hill. The game may not be as popular as Resident Evil and the gameplay may be a bit fiddly, but every Silent Hill title leaves its mark in the mind of gamers. This is psychological horror at its best. It combines action and puzzle elements with unsettling characters, hideous monsters and eerie sound effects and graphics. There are so many stand out moments in Silent Hill that it would be impossible to list them all. Needless to say the first time you witness the decaying dark world of Silent Hill, complete with sirens blaring and the radio crackling, you know this game oozes fear. Silent Hill is an adult game, not just because there is violence in it, but because the themes and issues it tackles are perverse and disturbing. The enemies are hideous to behold, but like Pyramid Head - the game's most iconic baddie - they all tie in to the background of Silent Hill and the fears of the character. Boasting six titles, a feature film and various comic books, Silent Hill has scared gamers on so many occasions and it continues to do so. Although perhaps the scariest moment came when Sean Bean attempted an American accent for the movie. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/a133504/feature-top-ten-scariest-games.html

Poor Manuel.... :P, No but honestly, this is terrible and I have never liked either of them!, he might commit suicide, is sick....it's all terrible! IT'S SICK!

:shocked2:, I Hope this doesn't Jeapordise her place on the show!:cry:

I Mean....How do you do it?....I don't know how I figured it out! :P

haha, my video?

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942- Use it as a substitute for a Oreo..

Definetely, I actually heard one report that it might be Jennifer, but I doubt that very much!:thinking:

I Think most of the final 12 are very good, I think the two worst yesterday were Daniel and Eoigan (Is that how you spell it?), Scott is pretty good!, I was really surprised, I was almost crying with Loius, they should definetely of gone to Deadlock yesterday and I Knew Daniel would of gone. Daniel is a good singer, not a great singer, he CAN Sing, and yes he is like a Pub singer. I Think (just before the sing-off), it was really stupid of Daniel renewing his sob story so the judges might reconsider...., Yes, I agree with you that last year Leon SHOULD NOT HAVE WON!, He was the one most deserving, but was one of the worst. Rhydian should of won but I thought he was pretty arrogant!. I Think all the women here are pretty much the same (Alexandra, Laura, Diana), all about the same quality, (I Thought Diana stood out a little bit last night), And Rachel is a VERY Strong singer and very different to anyone in the competition before!, She is VERY Different and desrving of winning even though at times she can be a bit bolchy!, and Austin is better than Eoigan (Although Eoigan's Imagine a couple of weeks ago was brilliant!), And JLS are pretty good but I Didn't like their performance last night... So I would like the final three to be: Diana, Rachel and Austin but I think it will be Laura, Eoigan and JLS.

yh..... :bigcry:

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BOTTOM TWO'S FOR SERIES SIX: LIVE SHOW ONE: Kandy Rain vs Rachel Adedeji- (Kandy Rain Went Home) LIVE SHOW TWO: Rachel Adedeji vs Rikki Loney- (Rikki Loney Went Home) LIVE SHOW THREE: Miss Frank vs Danyl Johnson- (Miss Frank Went Home) LIVE SHOW FOUR: Lloyd Daniels vs Rachel Adedeji- (Rachel Adedeji Went Home)

The OFFICIAL X Factor Thread Alright, we havn't had an official X Factor Thread yet so, here it is!: Here is the stats from previous 'X Factor's': SERIES ONE: WINNER: Steve Brookstein RUNNER-UP: G4 SERIES TWO: WINNER: Shayne Ward RUNNER-UP: Andy Abraham SERIES THREE: WINNER: Leona Lewis RUNNER-UP: Ray Quinn SERIES FOUR: WINNER: Leon Jackson RUNNER-UP: Rhydian Roberts SERIES FIVE: WINNER: Alexandra Burke RUNNER-UP: JLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERIES SIX STATS (SO FAR): TWELVE FINALISTS: X Factor 2009 - Final 12 Boys (Cheryl Cole): Lloyd Daniels Rikki Loney (LEFT WEEK TWO) Joe McElderry Girls (Dannii Minogue): Rachel Adedeji (LEFT WEEK FOUR) Stacey Soloman Lucie Jones Groups (Louis Walsh): Kandy Rain (LEFT WEEK ONE) John And Edward Grimes Miss F.R.A.N.K (LEFT WEEK THREE) Over 25s (Simon Cowell): Jamie (Afro) Archer Danyl Johnson Olly Murs

Die Another Day SERIOUSLY SUCKED!, Pierce Brosnan WAS The worst Bond!

:lol: I'll try ;)

R.I.P

I Absolutely love- Crack The Shutters, Disaster Button, The Planets Bend Between Us, Take Back The City and Set Down The Glass.... :love:

I really hate my voice on recorders! :P, you can listen to my voice on this spoof video I made.... (Alright....DON'T LAUGH! :P) [ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mDuEjQgoEx8]YouTube - How To- Put A DS Game Into A DS Console[/ame]

:dance:, Ha, i work in a charity shop every satarday for my DofE :lol: